We’re thrilled that four of our projects were announced winners at this year’s RIBA Regional Awards.
The awards celebrate the best in creative and solution rich architecture at a regional level across the UK, highlighting their innovation and commitment to designing and developing buildings for the future and to enhance people’s lives.
RIBA London Awards
The new Resource Recovery Facility forms part of the first phase of North London Waste Authority’s (NLWA) plan to build a £1.2bn sustainable waste management hub at Edmonton EcoPark South. One of the largest waste authorities in the UK, the NLWA will create the new facility across three buildings that will increase recycling rates and invest in a sustainable future for the local communities.
The Tannery, Southwark
Once a centre for the tannery trade which defined Bermondsey in the 19th century, The Tannery at Rich Industrial Estate in London comprises a community of new homes of mixed tenure, a hub for local and longstanding creative charities Tannery Arts/ Drawing Room and Southwark Studios, and individual artist studios. This new urban realm centres on the essential role of mixed-use and creative spaces to foster strong neighbourhoods. The development is three linked components, each with a distinct character, and the layout completes a new public thoroughfare and courtyard along New Tannery Way and a private landscaped courtyard for residents.
Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum, Kensington and Chelsea
The Urban Nature Project reimagines the Natural History Museum’s five-acre gardens, transforming an underused asset into an urban oasis. The project creates significant new areas of habitat and biodiversity, re-presenting the grounds as a living laboratory in the heart of London’s museum district. Two new pavilions, the Nature Activity Centre and Garden Kitchen, are integrated into the landscape, providing vital learning spaces, a science lab, volunteer and gardener facilities and a visitor café. In keeping with the ambitions of Alfred Waterhouse’s ‘cathedral to nature’, this once forgotten landscape is South Kensington’s most significant new public space, leading the debate on how we can revitalise nature within our cities for the future.
A core requirement for the project was to achieve significantly improved accessibility within a sensitive listed context. The design has re-graded the site to achieve a continuous 1:21 step-free route.
RIBA East Midlands Awards
Nottingham Trent University’s Design and Digital Arts Building
Nottingham Trent University’s new Design & Digital Arts building provides state-of-the-art resources for students across a ten-storey structure located at the corner of Shakespeare Street and North Sherwood Street. Designed by award-winning architects Hawkins\ Brown and delivered by local architects CPMG, the building offers students a range of cutting-edge facilities, including studios, specialised teaching rooms, study spaces, and resources for visual communication, moving images, and digital screen disciplines. These resources were designed to provide students with the best possible environment to develop their skills and ideas.
The building’s design emphasises sustainability, aiming for BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and DEC ‘A’ ratings, and features a glazed ground floor entrance that doubles as an exhibition space, fostering collaboration between the university, industry, and the local community.
All RIBA Regional Award winners will be entered into the RIBA National Awards held later this year.
You can view the full list of winners here.
